Hello Friends, How have you all been? I am guessing you have been pretty busy? My twin sis and I have been baking, baking and baking lol.
Today I am a guest on The Power Poppy blog and if you pop on over there you will see how ugly my Chex Mix bags were and why I jazzed them up.
If you want proof how quick these tags were you can check out the video here. 🙂
We made Chex Mix, Chocolate Covered Pretzels, & Biscotti!!
 
 
 I would love to what your baking traditions are or what you have been up to. Stay tuned for a studio tour soon and have a great start to the week.Hugs,Kathy
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I love hearing holiday traditions as well.
We had our annual cookie party yesterday and baked 9 kinds of cookies and fudge. It’s always the Sunday afternoon the week before Christmas. I also plan on making 3 more kinds along with some candy. I posted pics on my fb yesterday. I don’t think I can add them here.
Loved the video and I’ve always admired your coloring. Today I went down to the bottom and see that we live in the same state….. I live in Woodsboro but most people know of Frederick which is 14 miles from us. I love making Christmas bark. Saltines, butter, brown sugar, dark chocolate and pecans. Love to give that away.
Sounds delish!
I didn’t realize you had a twin, how cool is that? Your Christmas goodies look YUMMY.
My Mom and I always made her homemade donuts together and had a blast. Also, my older sister and I try to get together for a day and “power bake” where we make all of our family’s fav. things and share them around.
Can’t wait to see your studio tour video! (Heading over to Power Poppy Blog now!)
Merry Christmas to you Kathy and ALL of your loved ones!
You have a twin? Cool! I always wanted to be a twin. I babysat for fraternal twin girls who looked like Mary Kate and Ashley Olson. They looked that much alike but they weren’t identical. I could never tell them apart. One day they decided to fool me ( I think they were 4 when I sat for them) and they wore each other tees with their names on them. Since I couldn’t tell them apart I thought Jessica was Randi and vice versa. It was funny.
Baking for the holidays is something I always used to do. I used to make 7 or 8 different kinds of cookies when I was working in retail and working quite a bit. This year my dad is in a nursing home and coming home this week. He fractured his collarbone when he fell outside the doctors on a rainy, windy day. He’s also had a cough. Mom is coughing and feeling horrible and I’m the caregiver. I have a dry throat but I think it’s the dry air in the house. Have I baked anything yet? No! I can’t believe it! How did I do it before? I don’t know. I am going to make Guru Goodies though and here is the recipe. They are no bake even!
One 12oz. pkg. semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup crunchy or creamy if you have that peanut butter
4 cups Kraft mini colored marshmallows
Melt chocolate with peanut butter in a saucepan over low heat. Stir until smooth. Fold in marshmallows. Pour into a well greased 9″ square pan. Chill until firm and cut into squares.
I love what you did and how festive everything looks. I might have to try those pretzels you did but I might not get to them until after the holidays. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, Jennifer. I see you have an address in your newsletter and I will send you a card as soon as I can. Life has been hectic.
Of course you know I meant Christmas card. I didn’t say that. When we go visit my dad I bring Christmas cards to color. That’s about all I can do in his room at the home. Then I had to put them together and stamp a sentiment at home. I didn’t get them all done and I’m scrambling to finish among other things.
Merry Christmas!
Those pretzel rods look so good , my mouth is watering ! Merry Christmas Kathy âť„
Really Merry tags! They do look so professional with the little extras that you added. We always make nutmeg logs that are simple nutmeggy shortbread rolled into tiny logs (about 2 tsp. of dough) then backed. After you ice with butter/confect sugar/vanilla icing and run a fork thru the icing along the yule “log”. Sprinkled with nutmeg looks just like a snow covered log. AND delicious with coffee or egg nog since not too sweet.Wouldn’t be Christmas without them.
Great video Kathy, I wish you would of gone downstairs and got your twin sister on tape for us, we would of loved to see her. That is so cute you are a twin, how lucky are you ! It’s just me and hubby and our bulldog so we don’t do Christmas stuff, but we do order pizza on Christmas eve because it’s hubby’s bday. That Chex mix looks so yummy.
Merry Christmas Kathy to you and you family and all you readers.
Super pretty tags – what a pretty stamp. And your coloring … awesome. If I received that tag, it would NOT go in my trash.
Tradition would have to first be baking “green trees” … spritz cookies tinted with green food coloring- my daughter’s favorite since she was little (she’s now 41 and making them for her own family.) She always said “they just taste better than the other ones.” 🙂
Super fun tags loved all your comments on the trash value
Lovely chex mix tags. I have been baking with my family, having a marvelous time. Last year, with our daughter moved far away, the recent death of my bro, nothing got baked, just couldn’t do it. But this year, with our son’s girlfriend in the picture, and she’s far away from her family, she wanted to learn our “usual”. Because I was diagnosed with celiac disease a few years ago, baking with wheat flour is out of the question. I have learned which gluten free flours work best in our traditional recipes, and this weekend son, girlfriend, hubby and myself spent a marvelous afternoon baking sour cream sugar cookies, fruit cake cookies, peppernuts and fudge. They will be enjoyed over the holidays, shared with friends and neighbors who be given t hem as gifts. Most wonderful–no one will ever know they are gluten free–because they taste like the real deal!
Mom and I made popcorn balls every year when I was growing up, they are so yummy!! I made them with my kids, now mom is gone and the kids are all grown and moved away with their own families. I still have the recipe, but I don’t make them anymore because I would eat them all 🙂
Would you be willing to please share the recipe with me? My mother LOVES popcorn balls!
Our kids are all grown and far away now, too. A good thing about popcorn balls is I thing they would make good cushions when sending gifts. (Maybe put them in ziplocks?)
Thank you for considering this.
He IS Able!
Traci Starkweather tracistarkweather@gmail.com
Not at this time, her passing is recent and I can’t at this time.
Such pretty tags, Kathy! You have been very busy in the kitchen! I’m making tags today, too. The baking begins tomorrow. I’m really looking forward to your upcoming studio tour! Wishing your family a Christmas seasoned with love! ♡
Wonderful idea. I like the idea of the water coloring being stress free. The added white pen and black memento pen perfect. Thanks for sharing and have a very warm Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Hugs
Big Mamma’s fruit cake for my Dad. cranberry cookies for my s#2 son and Coconut cake .
I know,I know..but it is Christmas . Love the quick tags. Wish I had seen them sooner but… there is next year.
I just got home from baking Christmas cookies with my sister! I would love to try some of that biscotti! Wanna trade for some whole wheat sugar cookies? (I don’t know what I was thinking–I had just milled a bunch of wheat and grabbed that instead of the white flour! Not so noticeable in the ginger snaps and the oatmeal, date, coconut chewies, but not so tasty for the sugar cookies! I promised my niece I would re-do a batch for her when she and her hubbie get home from Christmas with his family.. I laughed out loud when you reached for the white gel pen, even for a “trash-factor” project. Hard to stop, isn’t it!!! Think we need a 12 step program for that??? Merry Christmas.
I love the holidays and start baking before Thanksgiving because I have to give it just after Thanksgiving due to seeing so many people!! What a great idea for the handmade tags!!
Everything looks so yummy and festive!! Love the tags you made too! We always make gingerbread cookies and iced/decorated sugar cookies. I’ve made them since I was a child and continued the tradition with our girls. Since they are now adults, I feel very lucky to have at least one of them help out and it makes it fun too!
I’ve also started a tradition of baking my Mamaw’s (grandmother) homemade bread. Do you know she made it without measuring a thing?!! Thank goodness a long time ago I asked her if I could come over while she made it, and would she please measure everything so I could write it down. I still remember sitting in her kitchen and have the recipe card I used that day. Sweet memories!!
May you and yours have a very merry and blessed Christmas!! Hugs! 🙂
Oh my goodness, a twin? What fun you must have! Thanks for sharing! Love the tags, and they do look quick! 🙂
Enjoyed the video and hearing about your recipes and also your sister. I think I am in love with those new Tim Holtz brushes.
Years ago, I used to bake Christmas cookies and make regular fudge and divinity fudge for my parents and siblings. Now, I make them cards, lol.
Please have a very Merry Christmas and may the New Year bring you and yours health and prosperity.
Hi Kathy!
Those goodies look so yummy! I love biscotti with a cup of hot tea!
My Bubie (Grandmother), but she was my Great-Grandmother, always baked strudel and sugar cookies at Chanukah. Every year, she would give us each a silver dollar, a baggie of sugar cookies and all the apple strudel we could eat! She never measured anything. It was a bistle of this a smidgen of that…best baker ever! When she passed away 30 years ago this January. (Wow.) I took over making the baggies of sugar cookies…just like she made them. I baked them for many years.
I haven’t made those cookies in years. I still love to make sugar-free rugulach for any occassion. (A lot of diabetics in our family.) At Christmas I like to make a cheese/pesto ring. It looks like a wreath and is pretty and festive. I don’t bake much anymore. Standing and bending to get trays out of the oven is very painful. Reading others comments and thinking of my 99 year-old Bubie baking, makes me want to make her sugar cookies this year!
I haven’t had a second to color since the challenge. A lot of serious situations with family members, and I started shopping for Christmas this past weekend. I can’t wait to color and start making cards again! I vow to correct before New Year’s!
Merry Christmas Kathy! You are a blessing in my life.
Oops! “Correct” should read “color!”
Cute tags!